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November 7, 2008

The Top Chef party

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Baltimore Foodies is holding a Top Chef fifth season premiere viewing party next Wednesday at, where else, Red Maple in Mount Vernon. (Surely everyone in Baltimore who's interested in food knows by now that the executive chef, Jill Snyder, is a contestant on the popular Bravo reality show.)

You can get your tickets at the Baltimore Foodies Web site. The $35 will cover "heavy hors d'oeuvres" created by, who else, Snyder and, I presume, a view of a TV screen.

The evening will start at 8:30 p.m.; and after the show, the fun will continue with  DJ Rahman and belly dancer (!) Leyla Fahadal.

Posted by Elizabeth Large at 10:33 AM | | Comments (4)
        

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I'm going to guess that she will be off the show pretty early since she is not featured in a single shot of any promo that I've seen. They usually dump the early losers or boring ones from the promos.

She may be dumped early, but I doubt if she goes in the first episode since they are showing it at her restaurant with her being there in person.

Besides, ever since they kicked off the brilliant Marcel in Season-2 for that other clown who couldn't cook anything that wasn't Spanish, they have lost credibility in my eyes.

that show is a joke anyway, they have you making omlets out of Doritos and Mike and Ikes. you'd have to be a mental case to put up with that kind of humiliation

Lars Rusins: Last night was meant to celebrate Jill, and Baltimore. And that was the driving force of the premiere party.

I came up with the idea, and sold the tickets. Red Maple drove the planning. In their defense, a couple of things, out of their control did occur.

Total attendees exceeded our projections by 20%. Long story. No excuses.

Secondly, at 7:00, the TV was working great, something happened between then, and the show airing to cause a signal loss. Again, not an excuse.

The event did, in my eyes, fail to meet expectations. At Baltimore Foodies, I am dedicated to providing guests with a great experience. If they aren't happy, I'm not.

As of 1:00pm, I have received seven e-mails from attendees, expressing their disappointment. I offered my apologies, and gave each one a full refund, fees and all.

Though the premiere party did not meet expectations, Jill did. She got through the first show, where others did not. I think that's the important thing. Baltimore Foodies has never been about me, it's about promoting the great, independent restaurants we have in Baltimore, and the chefs who work in them. ROCK ON JILL..!!!!


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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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